From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Calendar & proportional fonts Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:00:13 +0200 Message-ID: <3EA7B5F2-B2C6-4088-86FA-63814FF13BAC@Web.DE> References: <50683C8C.8010707@tesco.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349035226 22155 80.91.229.3 (30 Sep 2012 20:00:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:00:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: hairryharry Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 30 22:00:31 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TIPgl-0002Ik-BD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:00:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59147 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TIPgg-0004MX-0O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:00:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37041) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TIPga-0004MS-M7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:00:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TIPgZ-0006mi-Ji for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:00:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.3]:57354) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TIPgZ-0006mW-A1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:00:19 -0400 Original-Received: from sumac.fritz.box ([95.222.201.211]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb101) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0LhNjo-1Tn3YD2XHU-00nCfV; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:00:17 +0200 In-Reply-To: <50683C8C.8010707@tesco.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:4/yHxQ36gn3cMFxJssoweOrE2/qQDexW2myMPtDV9NN sJw3LX7OyE84Z7O30skD1tttlSS+2EklRblFxdHVivJJbXxq8O 0ta0j9ZhABlC0SIvFSYuMNP99k5PTqVRVTkVSAiu+im0YM6xjn iZKsKjDSPBofSvxprR9Q5VhnbnFlCERGBAB74EFT7NWXgRu58w ih612caPaDxRSO6GQl0Lg== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 212.227.15.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:87008 Archived-At: Am 30.09.2012 um 14:35 schrieb hairryharry: > Any ideas or pointers would be gratefully received. Maybe the Emacs Lisp Manual offers some pointers how to position = characters by a fraction of character width. Does it help to assume that GNU Emacs is not a graphical editor but = works character oriented? Leave it fixed width fonts! Then it's easier to understand why GNU Emacs = offers functions to operate on columns of text. In last millennium there was a time when you could find in the category = "state-of-the-art" alpha-numerical text terminals which offered on 25 = different lines space for exactly 80 characters. No-one more, no-one = less. And each character the same size. That's the time when the GNU = Emacs his or her story started. And that's the time when you could buy = mechanical typewriters. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter -- Greetings Pete Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. =96 Allen's Law